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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by kccqzy on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:57PM (#31137248)
Yes there's a reader mode built in to the browser. Ad blockers are available since 2015, although these are declarative ad blockers. Custom web extensions are also available more recently; these can actually run custom JS.
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by fsa3d4uyuiy on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:00PM (#31137284)
I'm not sure what the implications of "declarative ad blockers" are. Do you need to manually block them or something?
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by kccqzy on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:23PM (#31137531)
It means all ad blocking rules must be compiled and then sent to Safari. You can't, for example, execute some JavaScript to find out what elements to block. The format of these precompiled rules isn't as flexible as, say, uBlock Origin, but works well enough in practice.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by shkkmo on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:22PM (#31137527)
allow/deny lists rather than any sort of realtime dynamic filtering
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